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ClassyLady · #1 07-02-2001, 11:49 PM

Respecting your elders?

What is wrong with these kids today? I was on the train going to work this morning and these kids (about 15 or 16) were laughing and cursing very loudly. An elderly woman, at least 70, turned around and said "why don't yall just shut up?" One of the boys proceeded to curse her out.

What is going on here? Since when do you curse at a grown woman when you are fifteen, let alone an elderly woman. So what if she said shut up. After living seventy long years, don't you at least deserve the right to tell some loud ignorant kids to shut up?

I am perfectly grown. But, I know if I ever even thought about doing something like that, my mother would come out of nowhere and knock my teeth out before I could even open my mouth.

shannieglass · #2 07-03-2001, 12:33 AM

Classylady..I have been asking myself the same question..I guess the overwhelming numbers of "babies having babies" is making its presence felt..if kids have kids for parents they wont show you respect..and they know that the back in the day rhetoric of "it taking a whole neighborhood to raise a child" is dead..its scary..i saw these 11 year olds smoking..and im staring at them because im in shock..God give us strength

MissPradaLover · #3 07-03-2001, 03:45 AM

Classylady, I feel you!
I've witnessed that one too many times!

Teenagers or the "younger" generation have NO Respect for anyone older, let alone someone that's elderly. It's 5 of us and if any of us did so much as to look at an "adult" the wrong way, we'd get slapped or pinched! But most of the children do not have respect for themselves...and wouldn't dare to respect others. I'm with you Shannieglass, "God give us Strength"!

CelestialBlu1 · #4 07-03-2001, 09:11 AM

i think part of the problem is that parents expect kids to raise themselves now days...they let schools, televisions, and video games act as parents instead of doing it themselves...work from sun up to sun down...maybe see their kids for a few hours in the evening...often stressed out and not wanting to deal...so the kids are off to some friends house or plopped down in front of a tv...then parents get hot and blame the media for their childrens crazy behavior...when if they did their jobs in the first place...took the time to RAISE a child from birth...not all of a sudden try to discipline them at 10, 11, 12 years old...they wouldn't have that problem...and children would be much more respectful of everyone in general...

Professor · #5 07-03-2001, 11:51 AM

hmmmm cursed out. granny is lucky the kids did not beat the shit out of her. i'm scared of many of these bad ass kids. this new gereration is crazy and i do mean crazy. personally, i don't even speak to my own brother. i never know what he is on, what will set him off or what he is feeling. oddly, i think the only thing that will give my brother and other kids a chance to think about life is jail time.

lovele1978 · #6 07-03-2001, 03:06 PM

I'm still for the a$$ wuppin.

SweetestDiva · #7 07-03-2001, 04:30 PM

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Originally posted by lovele1978:
I'm still for the a$$ wuppin.

LMAO!!

Diva_56 · #8 07-03-2001, 05:36 PM

No morality, no self worth and most importantly noGOD in their lives... you take prayer out of the schools, you teach children that they evolved from apes and teach them that they have no purpose in life, not to mention to be selfish and loose, why should they respect authority? "Hey why should I listen to you I'm just gonna have my 'fun' and live my life and die happy"

I just thought I would post this some one sent to me...
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in light of the recent shooting in Massachusetts, let's see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complained she didn't want any prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school.... the Bible that says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said, OK.

Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem. And we said, an expert should know what he's talking about so we said OK, we won't spank them anymore.

Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. And the school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued.(There's a big difference between disciplining and touching, beating, smacking,humiliating, kicking, etc. And we accepted their reasoning.

Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won't even have to tell their parents. And we said, that's a grand idea. Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they're going to do it anyway, let's give our sons all the condoms they want, so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school. And we said, that's another great idea.

Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs. And agreeing with them, we said it doesn't matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in private as long as I have a job and the economy is good.

And then someone said let's print magazines with pictures of nude women and call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of the female body. And we said we have no problem with that.

And someone else took that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and then stepped further still by making them available on the internet. And we said they're entitled to there free speech.

And the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. And let's record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes. And we said it's just entertainment, it has no adverse effect, and nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."

Dear God, Why didn't you save the little girl in Michigan? Sincerely, Concerned Student

AND THE REPLY

Dear Concerned Student, I am not allowed in schools. Sincerely, God.

"A rich man who does not know himself is worth less than a poor man who does".

CelestialBlu1 · #9 07-04-2001, 12:42 AM

that is a huge part of the problem right there...when kids are in trouble...don't have direction...the automatic response is to get rid of them...lockem up somewhere...when in reality if they had someone that showed a genuine interest in their welfare...and not all parents do...they would probably "see the error" of their ways...once again...like i heard someone say once...we create criminals...lost children...then punish them for what WE created...that is truly not the solution in my opinion...

lovele1978 · #10 07-04-2001, 12:42 AM

RAISE a child from birth...not all of a sudden try to discipline them at 10, 11, 12 years old...

CelestialBlu1... I feel you on that one! Whatever happened to a good 'ol a$$ wuppin'??
Or any kind of discipline for that reason. I have friends that are teachers and they tell me that one of the biggest problems are the parents are trying to be their children's friend, or the "cool" parent

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CelestialBlu1 · #11 07-04-2001, 12:45 AM

what happened to plain old verbal exchange...genuinely wanting to understand a child...being a guide...not a forcer...encouraging their freedom but making it clear there are certain things that won't be tolerated...and those things have very real consequences...i don't think that corporal punishment is the solution either...there are much more creative ways to discipline children...i don't like people hitting me as an adult...so why treat children any differently...??? it creates a situation of fear, and intimidation...not admiration, respect, love, and honor...but again, you can't just pop up at 12 and be trying to "talk" to your child about anything...they won't be hearing you...

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